Washington (AFP) – With the stakes high in France’s second-round presidential election, many French citizens in the United States and Canada trooped to polling places Saturday to cast their ballots, a day before their fellow citizens back home. Centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his extreme-right challenger Marine Le Pen have waged a bitter campaign, and Sunday’s result is expected to be far closer than when the two faced off five years ago. More than 130,000 French expatriates are registered to vote in the US and just over 100,000 in Canada. In the first round, only 30 percent of eligible…